JOAN AND TED JOHNSON'S WEB PAGES
SCOTLAND 2003
We set off on
12 April with Noreen and Jim for the journey to Tyndrum
which is roughly half way between
The first day
was an easy twelve miles from Milngavie to Drymen. The scenery here was nothing spectacular but
pleasant enough. We stopped off at the Glengoyne
distillery and the boys sampled the 10 year and the 21 year malts and each came
away with heavier rucksacks – it's a good job we weren't backpacking. On the
second day we walked 14 miles to Rowardennan and by
now had
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The weather
was also improving. On the third day, when we walked a fairly strenuous 14
miles to Inverarnan it was beautiful and it stayed
like that for the rest of the walk.
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We had two 16 mile days – Inverarnon to Glen Auch and Glen Auch to Kingshouse, but the going was not difficult and we were by
now in our stride. We're heading for the
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After
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We were
really in the wilderness when we crossed Rannoch
Moor. We had a welcome drinks stop at Ba Bridge.
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On the
penultimate day we set off from Kingshouse, along
Glen Coe and then climbed the Devil's Staircase. We had fantastic views all
day. The descent to Kinlochleven was a pleasant
gentle descent although the path was rough at times. We had our first sight of
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On our last
day of the Way we walked the fourteen miles from Kinlochleven
to
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Here's our
photo at the end!
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The next day
we said our farewells to Jim and Diane at Glengarry House and we set off, by
car this time, for
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On our final
day – just to round things off – we climbed all 4,406 feet of
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The final
celebration at The Ben Nevis Inn
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